Anyone upgraded from F19 to F20 with yum?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:56:13PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:41:44PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> >> Any gotchas that I should be aware of?
> > 
> > I did it the week of the release and didn't hit anything.
> 
> As a matter of interest, what is the advantage of doing this
> rather than using fedup?

I got tired of all the different gotchas with upgrade utilities.  Yum
behaves in a much more consistent way, and seems more reliable to me.
These are the steps that I take:
1. init 3
2. run rpmconf to check all conf files
3. yum --releasever=<num> distro-sync
4. run rpmconf again
5. do any special changes needed for this release (e.g. when the /usr
   move happened in F18), or application specific stuff.
6. reboot

So far I have only faced problems from specific packages, not the
upgrade process.  I have used this without problems since F14 up to F20
on one machine, and since F15 to F19 on another.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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